The BJP units organised programmes to celebrate the occasion, a release said.

Madhya Pradesh BJP President Nandkumar Singh Chauhan, taking a dig at the Congress, said: "During the days of Congress, homes used to remain dark even during Diwali. But on Tuesday, 50,000 villages of the state are gleaming."

Meanwhile, the opposition -- Congress, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) called Shivraj Singh Chouhan's tenure as a "tenure of scams".

Madhya Pradesh Congress President Arun Yadav called the state's ruling dispensation "a government of 132 scams".

"In Chief Minister Chouhan's tenure of 132 months, i.e., 11 years. A scam has happened every month," he told IANS.

The AAP called the tenure a period of bad governance and corruption while CPI-M said "records of corruption" have been set in the last 11 years.

--IANS

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The BJP units organised programmes to celebrate the occasion, a release said.

Madhya Pradesh BJP President Nandkumar Singh Chauhan, taking a dig at the Congress, said: "During the days of Congress, homes used to remain dark even during Diwali. But on Tuesday, 50,000 villages of the state are gleaming."

Meanwhile, the opposition -- Congress, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) called Shivraj Singh Chouhan's tenure as a "tenure of scams".

Madhya Pradesh Congress President Arun Yadav called the state's ruling dispensation "a government of 132 scams".

"In Chief Minister Chouhan's tenure of 132 months, i.e., 11 years. A scam has happened every month," he told IANS.

The AAP called the tenure a period of bad governance and corruption while CPI-M said "records of corruption" have been set in the last 11 years.

--IANS

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(This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

11th year of Shivraj's tenure in MP celebrated

The BJP units organised programmes to celebrate the occasion, a release said.

Madhya Pradesh BJP President Nandkumar Singh Chauhan, taking a dig at the Congress, said: "During the days of Congress, homes used to remain dark even during Diwali. But on Tuesday, 50,000 villages of the state are gleaming."

Meanwhile, the opposition -- Congress, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) called Shivraj Singh Chouhan's tenure as a "tenure of scams".

Madhya Pradesh Congress President Arun Yadav called the state's ruling dispensation "a government of 132 scams".

"In Chief Minister Chouhan's tenure of 132 months, i.e., 11 years. A scam has happened every month," he told IANS.

The AAP called the tenure a period of bad governance and corruption while CPI-M said "records of corruption" have been set in the last 11 years.

--IANS

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(This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)